RE: Tell me about the confused OCP.

From: Janardhana Babu <jbdonga_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:48:42 -0700
Message-Id: <10556.111852@fatcity.com>

I do not think the certification is valid forever. We need to take the upgrade exam before your certification expires. The expiration dates will be available at http://education.oracle.com <http://education.oracle.com> After the expiration date, we need to start all over again to get the certification. Let me know if Iam wrong.

Janardhana Babu OCP DBA

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From: Surendra_Tirumala [mailto:Surendra_Tirumala_at_hht.satyam.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:18 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Tell me about the confused OCP.

Xiaoliang Chen,
Once you are certfied in any particular stream( 7/8/8i), your certification is valid forever.And whenever you want to take up the upgradation exam just take it.

Best thing for you is to go for 8 stream and later you can think of taking up 8i upgradation.My observation is that it is much difficult to clear 8i exam directly because of so many new features.

Surendra

From: Xiaoliang Chen
Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:46 PM

To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 
Subject:        Tell me about the confused OCP. 

	hi, all, 

	I decide to pass my OCP DBA in two months. But I do not if I

directly choose
Oracle8i test package or choose Oracle8 test package and then have a Oracle8i new features test.

One of my friend said this to me:
Let me tell you why it is not good to do oracle 8i at the moment. 1. It will cost you a lot since no one has the stuff for oracle 8i and is selling it on the net.
2. the market will not revert to oracle 8i before a couple of years, because mosst companies recently migrated from oracle 7.3 to oracle 8 3. if you do oracle 8 and give the upgrade exam you will have two certification. oracle 8 dba and 8i dba.

I am afraid I could hardly get Exam crams about Oracle8i at this time. Maybe
I should first pass the Oracle8 and then pass the upgrate test. But someone tell me one must pass the upgrate test in 6 months from the day the new version was coming up. Which mean if Oracle8i was coming up on 01/01/00, I have to pass the upgrate test from Oracle8 to Oracle8i before 07/01/00. That mean I could not the upgrate test.....I am so confused....help me!
What is your all 's suggestion? Please give me a reply. Your reply will be fully appreciated.

Best wishes!
Yours sincerely, Xiaoliang Chen

SUN certified Solaris7 System Administrator

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